UAI-2000:
The Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty
in Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University,
Stanford, CA
June 30 - July 3, 2000
As we approach the new millenium, advances in the theory and practice of
artificial intelligence have pushed intelligent systems to the forefront
of the information technology sector. At the same time, uncertainty
managament has come to play a central role in the development of
these systems. The Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial
intelligence, organized annually under the auspices of the Association for Uncertainty in AI (AUAI), is the
premier international forum for exchanging results on the use of
principled uncertain-reasoning methods in intelligent systems.
The Sixteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial, UAI-2000, will be
held from June 30 - July 3, 2000, at Stanford University. The main
technical program will be run from July 1-3, with UAI's regular tutorial
program and several workshops to be held on June 30. As in 1998 in
Madison, WI, this year the conference will be co-located with the
International Conference on Machine Learning and the Conference on
Compuational Learning theory.
Registrants to any of COLT, ICML, or UAI will be allowed to attend,
without additional cost, the technical sessions of the other two
conferences.
Please check the UAI-2000
home page regularly for updates on conference details, submission
requirements, etc.
Links to Detailed Information
You can currently find specific information about UAI-2000 on the
following topics:
Technical Program
The UAI-2000 Technical Program will be made available soon. We are
very excited to offer the plenary or poster presentation of seventy-five
high-quality, state-of-the-art technical papers. You can
view both
The Technical Program
and the
List of Accepted Papers
to be presented at the conference. The
Conference Schedule
lists the other exciting events (tutorials,
workshops, conference banquet, etc.) that will take place during UAI.
Invited Speakers
UAI-2000 is also very pleased that the following Invited Speakers
will offer plenary talks on cutting-edge topics:
- Professor Aaron Bobick, Georgia Tech College of Computing
of Technology
- Professor David Botstein, Department of Genetics, Stanford University
- Professor Andrew Moore, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University
Talk Titles and Abstracts
Tutorial Program
We continue this year with the long-standing, UAI full-day tutorial
program on Friday, June 30. This year we will be offering four
tutorials, including one jointly with COLT-2000. Tutorials
on the following topics will be offered:
- Possibility Theory: A Tool for Handling Incomplete
Information and Preference, Didier Dubois, IRIT
- Fundamental Principles of Probabilistic Network Representation,
Ross Shachter, Stanford Univeristy
- Learning Bayesian Networks From Data,
David Heckerman, Microsoft Research
- An Introduction to Support Vector Machines
and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods, John Shawe-Taylor,
Nello Cristianini, University of London (joint tutorial with
COLT-2000
For detailed information, please see
The UAI-2000 Full-Day Course on Uncertainty
Affiliated Workshops
Three workshops will be held in conjunction with UAI-2000, on June 30, 2000.
- Workshop on Fusion of Domain Knowledge with
Data for Decision Support
- The Workshop on Probabilistic Models in
Computational Molecular Biology has been CANCELLED
- Workshop -- Beyond MDPs: Representations and
Algorithms
For detailed information, please see
The UAI-2000 Workshops Page
UAI-2000 Sponsors
UAI-2000 is extremely grateful for the assistance provided by the
following sponsors:
Important Dates
- Camera-ready Copy of Accepted Papers due: Thursday, May 11, 2000
- Workshops and Tutorials: Friday, June 30, 1999
- Technical Program: Saturday, July 1 - Monday, July 3
Conference Organization
Please direct general inquiries to the General Conference Chair
at klaskey@gmu.edu.
Inquiries about the conference program and submission requirements should
be directed to the Program Co-Chairs at
uai00-pchairs@cs.toronto.edu
Conference Chairs
General Conference Chair:
Kathryn Blackmond Laskey
Department of Systems Engineering and Operations Research
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
USA
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Phone: +1 (703) 993-1644
Fax: +1 (703) 993-1521
E-mail: klaskey@gmu.edu
Program Co-chairs:
Craig Boutilier
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 3H5
CANADA
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Phone: +1 (416) 946-5714
Fax: +1 (416) 978-1455
E-mail: cebly@cs.toronto.edu
Moisés Goldszmidt
Peakstone Corporation
155A Moffett Park Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
USA
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Phone: +1 (408) 752-1024
Fax : +1 (408) 752-1040
E-mail:
moises@cs.stanford.edu
The UAI-2000 Program Committee
Past UAI Conferences
The proceedings and contents of past UAI Conferences can be located
at:
Uncertainty in
Artificial Intelligence Conferences: Electronic Proceedings